Publication Number: 2019-22 Publication Date: Monday, December 16, 2019 The International Seminar on Macroeconomics (ISoM) is an annual conference, which was co-sponsored, during 15 years (1978-1993) by the French EHESS and the NBER. This article… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2019-21 Publication Date: Monday, November 18, 2019 Current literature on John Stuart Mill’s writings about Asia has mainly focused on his influence in India because of Mill’s 35-year career in the East India Company. Scholars in… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2019-20 Publication Date: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 Paul Samuelson was attracted to the economic dynamics of South American countries because of the links between economic performance and political factors. He discussed the influence… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2019-19 Publication Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 This paper offers an analysis of the challenges the researchers associated with the Cowles Commission faced while establishing a mathematically and abstractly driven definition of "… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2019-18 Publication Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 The economics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides a field well befitting to study the translation in the discipline of economics of “esoteric research”… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2019-17 Publication Date: Monday, September 16, 2019 The concept of ‘the core’ originates in cooperative game theory and its introduction to economics in the 1960s as a basis for proofs of existence of general equilibrium is one of… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2019-16 Publication Date: Monday, September 9, 2019 A transcription of a 2019 conversation with the Duke University historian E. Roy Weintraub on his intellectual development over the 1980s from mathematician to economist to… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2019-15 Publication Date: Wednesday, August 7, 2019 This paper takes up Coase’s views on the Chicago school, as found in his published and, especially, unpublished writings, beginning already in the early 1960s, prior to his… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2019-14 Publication Date: Wednesday, August 7, 2019 We examine Coase’s biographical work on Marshall and his discussions of Marshall’s economics for clues as to the sources of Coase’s affinity for Marshall. And as we shall see, the… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2019-13 Publication Date: Friday, August 2, 2019 F. A. Hayek published The Road to Serfdom in 1944, so 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the event. The paper traces how Hayek came to write the book, who his opponents were, and how… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2019-12 Publication Date: Monday, July 15, 2019 This paper investigates the political and economic contexts of the controversy about the causes of the significant increase of income concentration in Brazil during the 1960s. That was… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2019-11 Publication Date: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Paul Samuelson’s famous 1948 “factor price equalization theorem” was his main contribution to international trade theory. He demonstrated conditions under which trade in goods only… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2019-10 Publication Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 This chapter explains how the concept of the rule of law grew and changed in the founding of the United States. The United States was founded by people who thought they were adopting… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2019-09 Publication Date: Friday, May 17, 2019 The literature in the history of economics has grown to an extent that it is almost impossible for an individual to read, study, and assimilate all the recent works even in a specialized… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2019-08 Publication Date: Friday, May 10, 2019 Samuelson kept optimization-based problems separated from macroeconomic dynamics in his Foundations, where dynamics were defined in terms of difference and differential equations.… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2019-07 Publication Date: Monday, April 22, 2019 The theory of economic development was an exception to Paul Samuelson’s claim of being a “generalist” in economics. It was a hard subject to tackle analytically because of the… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2019-06 Publication Date: Monday, March 11, 2019 This will be the third chapter in a forthcoming book on the Rule of Law, Economic Development, and Corporate Governance. The first chapter will introduce the book’s themes and… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2019-05 Publication Date: Thursday, February 28, 2019 This article explores Douglass North’s intellectual development as a political economist and an interdisciplinary researcher. Although he was an important figure during the… read more about this publication »
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